"Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing de...












Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

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"She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror ...
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"It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
"I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the ...
"Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be...
"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
"It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.
"One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
"There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
"The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.
"It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.
"Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.